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National Novel Writing Month, shortened as NaNoWriMo (na-noh-ry-moh) is an annual Internet-based creative writing project that takes place every November. NaNoWriMo challenges participants to write 50,000 words of a new novel between November 1 and 30. It accepts entries from around the world. The goal of NaNoWriMo is to get people writing, no matter how bad the writing is, through the end of a first draft. The idea is that many people are scared to start writing because it won't be any good, and if there's a time to celebrate length, rather than quality, more people will write an entire first draft, which they can then proceed to edit if they wish.
November 1st will be here soon and once again I am contemplating joining in the competition. Only the first time of three attempts over the last three years was I successful in writing within the one month time frame the entire 50,000 words needed for completion. A digital image of my certificate is stored somewhere on my computer's hard drive, and also on a couple of memory sticks.
I also saved the novel. But it's poorly written. Not really a 'novel' at all; it's a hodge-podge of way too many unrelated sentences and paragraphs thrown together into artificial chapters. It stinks. If I knew where it is stored, I would go to it right this instant and delete, delete, delete.
One good thing came out of the first year's project, though. A fellow writer that I like to call my dear friend purchased and mailed to me a set of NaNoWriMo memorabilia as an incentive for me to persevere. One of the pieces of the set was a sturdy, thick coffee mug emblazoned with the NaNoWriMo logo on its side. I still have it and still drink my coffee from it every morning.
But . . .
I hate the idea of NaNoWriMo, and I hate the process, every single day of it. Which is thoroughly understandable because I have hated bowing to the dictates of any authority figure all throughout my lifetime... even when the 'authority' was myself.
But I am almost convinced that I am going to do it again this year.
Pretty sure . . .
NaNoWriMo Information
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Did You Know . . .?
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
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HISTORICAL EVENT
The second act of the musical "Nord Ost" was just beginning at the Moscow Ball-Bearing Plant's Palace of Culture when an armed man walked onstage and fired a machine gun into the air. The terrorists -- including a number of women with explosives strapped to their bodies -- identified themselves as members of the Chechen Army. They had one demand: that Russian military forces begin an immediate and complete withdrawal from Chechnya, the war-torn region located north of the Caucasus Mountains.
After a 57-hour-standoff at the Palace of Culture, during which two hostages were killed, Russian special forces surrounded and raided the theater on the morning of October 26. Later it was revealed that they had pumped a powerful narcotic gas into the building, knocking nearly all of the terrorists and hostages unconscious before breaking into the walls and roof and entering through underground sewage tunnels. Most of the guerrillas and 120 hostages were killed during the raid.
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WORD FOR TODAY
tumid [TOO-mihd or TYOO-mihd]
adjective
1. Swollen; distended. Used of a body part or organ.
2. Of a bulging shape; protuberant.
3. Overblown; bombastic: tumid political prose.
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CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
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"I could inform the dullest author how he might write an interesting book -- let him relate the events of his own Life with honesty, not disguising the feelings that accompanied them."
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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